Yo, Paul Ryan! Atlas Didn't Shrug, She Put Her Hand Out

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 11:08:24 CST 2011


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> The special thing about names in general is that wrong pronounciation of them could be considered as rude in a personal way.

But only by those persons that are especially touchy.

And now you should know that your initial question ( "I sometimes ask
myself what effect on native English speakers it has that "cunt" and
Kant are pronounced exactly the same") was base on a false premise
(that most English speaker know the correct pronunciation of "Kant").



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